The Progress., 1887-11-19
Epitome Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

0pAoOAO VI UIlo Vcth.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
.. 1 DOMESTIC.
TIE total receipts OF the Post-ofice De-
partment at Washington for the last fiscal
year were $4S. s37, 900, and the expendi-
tureA $52. .391 ,677, leaving deficiency Of
1864. .O6a D..
Waldrup near Waverly, Ala, last year, was
taken out of Jail at ,Opelika on the 5th by
mob of masked men and hanged
w. A CONE, q defaulting tax-collector Of
Harris County, Tex was arrested on the
9th after eluding the vigilance Of the police
for six years e -
By an explosion of molten steel on the
9Th atthe works of an iron company near
Springfield, Ill, four men were fatally in
jured .e
EXPERIMENTS on the 9th at New York with
nitIo-glycerine shells showed that if iron
ships had been fred at instead Of targets
they would have been blown to pieces
GENERAL RuGER gave battle ON the 5th to
the Crow Agency Indians in Montana, in
which Sword-Be and three or four of his
desperate followers were killed, and the
outbreak was virtually crushed
TEE Supreme Court of Utah decided on
the 9th to appointa receiver for the Nor
mon church property in excess of the $780,
600 limit fixed by Congress In 1862.
THOMAS MAGU1KE, of Somerset, Mass, re-
ceived word on the; 9th that he had fallen
heir to fortune of So 500, 900 by the death
Of q brother in Denver
DURING the last fiscal year the imports
nom this country into Canada have de-
creased, while the exports have maintained
the average of recent years.
IT was decided on the 5th to celebrate in
New York City in 1889 the centennial of the
inauguration of George Washington as
President The celebration will be National
In it's character.
The Kansas City Cable Railway Company
on the 7th voluntarily made rule allow
ing mail-carriers free passes on the road
while on duty. s-'~~~s
BUSINESS block in Evansville, Ind, was
destroyed by fire on the 9TH, causing loss
of $500, ,OO0.
IHE amount OF wheat in sight in this coun-
try on the 9TH was officially reported at
10, la, ,75S bushels, Of corn at 7516, ,OS0
bushels, and Of oats at 6, 523, 437 bushels
year ago the stock of wheat was 55,O4S,-
1876 bushels of corn I l., 1,O13.212 bushels,
and of oats 5, $50, 495 bushels
Gus LAMBERT became suddenly insane at
Quebec, Can, on the 7th, and cut the throats
VI Lib WIG. ClllQ ana lunSelf
JOSEPH GAVIN, arailroad grader, fell asleep
with pipe in his mouth in an old stage
coach at Omaha, Nebs, on the 18th, and was
burned to death A few hours later a
barn caught fires and twenty-nine horses
were cremated
IT was reported at Washington on the 7th
that Prof Cushman had unearthed ascity in
Southern Arizona, near the junction of the
Salt and CHA rivers, and that his party had
exhumedtwo thousand skeletons
FARM-HoUsEs, grain, fences, lumber, etc..
had been burned up on the 9TH by fires
raging in the timber in the neighborhood of
Hillsboro, I'LL
INDIAN INSPECTOR ARMSTRONG telegraphed
the authorities at Washington on the 9TH
that all the refractory Grows, save one, had
been delivered up, and that no further
trouble was feared.
ADv1CEs Of thes7th say that the forest
fires had caused such an unnatural heat in
Boone County, W. Va, that trees were bud
ding and leaves and blossoms were appear
ing. -.~s-----.. r =. --..-~--,-. ~-.
On the 7th Messrs Wasserman, Leyden.
Ochs, Van Pelt. Varnell and Wren, the con-
victed Chicago @boodlers," were sentenced
to two years each In the penitentiary
A. sEvEN-sToRY apartment building in
Minneapolis, Mimi, was destroyed by fire
on the 7th, causing a loss Of $l4O,OOO
The Fifth National Bank of st. Louis
closed Its doors on the 9TH, owing to con-
tinual withdrawal Of funds by depositors.
The capital was 1890, 900, and the deposits
were figured at 100000
h SAMPSON & Co. 8 tobacco factory at
Reidsville, N: G., was" burned on the 9TH.
Loss. 800, OOO.,y -,7-'.'% .
WHILE standing at his door on the 9TH j. 1
H. Taylor, OF Jeffersonv1lle, Ind, was shot
dead by some one In ambush + !
IT was announced from Washington on
the 9TH that the Civil-service Commission
had about completed radical revision of
It's rules The effect of one important
change would be to curtail the powers Of
appointing officers
An assignment was made at Cincinnati
on the 7th by James Mack, steamboat
builder and dealer in lumber, sash, doors
and blinds with liabilities of 100000 Il
AT meeting of Methodist ministers on
the 7th at Cleveland, O., q resolution urging
Governor Oglesby to permit the law to take,
It's course in the case of the Anarchists was
adopted by vote of % to l. +
By the caving in of a railroad tunnel on
the 9th twelve miles west of Coshocton,
o., six men were killed and seven others
were injured. .g-sH r'% i
IT was said on the 9Th that owing to the
PAooAoSeCO N0OuSuU III OOuGHerQ lNQlanG
and Illinois wells had given out and streams
had dried up, 80 that in some places people
were compelled to go several miles for
water. - p -
The first truss of the bridge across the
Hudson at Poughkeepsie which was put in
position on the 9Th, is the largest and heav-
lest steel truss in the world. 1t is 525 feet
long, 80 feet deep and 35 feet wide.
The United States Consul at Baraquilla.
United States Of Colombia, reported on the
9Th that flour was sold there at forty dol
lars q barrel 49, a--
In an altercation at the polls in Chicago
on the 9Th between James Hussey and Pat
rick Hogan, Dem mocratic ticket-peddlers, the
latter shot and killed the other.
IT was said on the 9th that the men who
were lynched recently for the murder of
Rev: Mr. Ryan in Roane County, W. Va.
were Innocent of the crime, and efforts
were being made to bring the lynohers to
Justice. 5,z..s.~u5
ONE man was killed and several were ia
tally injured by the falling of bridge over
the Maumee river at Waterville q On tho